Della Bahmandar

2024 Distinguished Service Award Winner

Della Bahmandar, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCSCP, currently serves as director of pharmacy at Saint Luke’s North Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. This position includes oversight of a community hospital, a rehab/behavioral health campus, and four critical access hospitals. She also leads initiatives around sterile compounding, hazardous compounding, and controlled substance diversion detection at the system level.

Bahmandar earned her PharmD and her Master’s in Business Administration from Roseman University. She completed her postgraduate year 1 pharmacy practice residency at the Cleveland Clinic – Main Campus and her postgraduate year 2in health system pharmacy administration at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.

Bahmandar has been an active member of ASHP at the state and national level. Her state involvement includes serving as director-at-large then president of the Nevada Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Her national involvement includes many years serving on various section and forum advisory groups, serving on the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Practice, and serving as the chair of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Education Steering Committee. She has also served as a delegate in the ASHP House of Delegates.

Bahmandar has presented on several topics related to mental health and wellness, drug diversion prevention, and sterile compounding. She also serves as a preceptor for residents and students and is actively involved in pharmacy optimization improvement projects.